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What’s the difference between a painting of a flag on a piece of canvas and an actual flag? Unbelievably, this was a question Schopenhauer and Nietzsche had never asked themselves. Jasper Johns’ “Flag”. Encaustic, oil and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, 1954-55. But it’s an interesting conundrum which was introduced into Western Art when Jasper Johns [...]

I made this cartoon in response to the recent exhibition at the Royal Academy here in London – Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 The spiel below is lifted from the RA website… Renowned artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall and Rodchenko were among those to live through the fateful events of 1917, which ended centuries of Tsarist [...]

Art is full of friction like this. My book shines a light on these sordid chapters in art history. The mainstream press deliberately and wilfully ignores the real story. They want you to believe it’s all about pretty pictures!

Here’s a lovely review of my book (in French translation by Flammarion) which appeared in the Belgian newspaper L’Echo on the 15th of August 2016. Wonky English translation below… The Bonfire of the Vanities revisited Peter Duggan, Australian cartoonist for the Guardian, likes to confuse readers with cartoons in the form of tributes. Those [...]

They say that the essence of drama is conflict. And you can’t argue with them or they’ll punch you in the face. But in any case the point is proven by the superlative TV series Game of Thrones. It is the very embodiment of conflict. The variety and number of conflicts, on every scale you [...]

Just noticed a review of the French version of my book in BD Gest’, the premier francophone site for comic reviews – see here. I am very proud to say it was rated 4 out of…eh?…WTF? It is with a sarcastic and slightly envious eye that Peter Dunggan (that’s me) decrypts in his own [...]